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Punk will never be dead to me. It’s my life. I can never just drop this lifestyle. It embodies me.

Billie Joe Armstrong

No one’s really happy anyway, it’s not human.
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Happiness Happy Humans Really
With age, it really becomes thinking about how time has passed – that’s sort of the root of age.
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Age Pass Roots Thinking
I don’t like LA. The majority just seem to be so artificial. Look at how they worship everything they think is fashionable. Isn’t it sick?
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Majority Sick Thinking
Our passion is our strength.
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Passion Strength
That’s where all good music comes from, I think – anything that’s likely to have an impact on pop culture comes from a point where there’s no expectation of it becoming anything other than personal.
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Expectations Impact Thinking
I hate celebrities. I really hate them.
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Celebrities Hate People
I’m always a work in progress.
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Always Progress Work
Punk rock isn’t supposed to be for everyone. There is that sort of private club mentality, which is necessary. It keeps things from getting watered down and boring.
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Clubs Down Mentally Rocks
I think the working-class part of me comes out. Sometimes the people who have the loudest mouths are upper-class, upper-middle-class.
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Class Middle People Thinking
You can’t go voicing something if it’s just not right.
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Right Something Voicing
I just plug in and let go.
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Funny Inspiring Letting
I think it’s your own choice if you turn from an angry young man to a bitter, old bastard.
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Choices Men Thinking
If Britney Spears would paint her ass green, I’m sure you would spot green asses all over L.A., as soon as the word was out.
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Ass Green Paint Soon Sure
That’s the gamble that you make when you decide to become a rock musician. It’s totally unpredictable.
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Musicians Rock Music Rocks
Never run in the rain with your socks on.
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Rain Run Running
Just because you’re in the missionary position don’t make you no missionary.
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Just Missionary Position
Music – that’s been my education. There’s not a day that goes by that I take it for granted.
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Education Granted Music
You want a drumstick? Like a ice cream cone or a chicken wing!?
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Chicken Ice Cream Want Wings
There’s nothing wrong with being a loser, it just depends on how good you are at it.
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Depend Loser Nothing
Controversy What controversy This is reality. What I see is that no matter if you’re a conservative or a liberal or whatever side you stand on, this is the reality of the situation – that people’s families and their young kids are being affected.
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Kids People Reality
I’m not going to conform to some consumer need.
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Consumers Needs
There are many things in life that you feel you need such as television, magazines, teachers telling that you have to make money and be successful, but if you have some kind of hope, something to hold onto, then all this will no longer be important.
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Mean Money Some Successful Teacher
People are so damned afraid that one day they might wake up and discover that they’ve grown old.
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Day One People Up Wake
Thats what Green Day is-there are no rules.
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Day Green Rules
Songs are like a form of chaos that you can control. It’s a form of intelligence that maybe you only understand and you hope that someone else can understand.
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Emotional Gutters Song
We never fit in completely to [the punk] scene because we were writing love songs that were heartfelt and endearing.
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Heart Song Writing
The thing about punk is that there are purists. Once you start going outside of that, they don’t think what you’re doing is punk rock.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

Punk Rocks Thinking

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